Hello and welcome to Episode 5 of the Have You Ever Wondered What Happened podcast.

DDT, (Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane) once so highly promoted, now, banned except when sprayed in one of the last places you’d ever expect!

In this episode we get in to part 1 of a 2 part series on what DDT is, how it was discovered, why it was good, why it was bad, that it was banned, why it was banned, and where it is still being used anyway. We talk about how it works, why it works.

The use of DDT did a great deal to limit the spread of insect-born disease… but at what cost?

What are Typhus and Malaria? How are the two spread? Treated

Why is DDT so bad? Why was it banned yet Love Canal was able to happen?

The environmental movement, “Silent Spring” by marine biologist Rachel Carson and a series of events that occurred at the start of the Nixon administration.

Creation of the Environmental Protection Agency

Half life and travel ability of DDT

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), the Stockholm Convention on POPS Treaty, and the ban exemption allowed by the World Health Organization

Have you ever wondered?